“Los Colonos”, by Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez, was chosen by the members of the Chilean Film Academy as Chile’s representative for the Ariel Awards in Mexico. Founded in 1946, the Ariel Awards will have their ceremony on September 9 in Guadalajara. The Minister of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, Carolina Arredondo Marzán, celebrated the nomination. “We … Read more
The feature film “The Colonists”, by Chilean director Felipe Gálvez, received this Saturday the Grand Prix for Fiction at the Geneva Film Festival and Human Rights Forum, ex aequo with the film “The Cage Searches for a Bird” by the Chechen director Malika Musaeva. The Chilean film, which denounces the genocide of the indigenous people … Read more
The film “The Colonists” has undoubtedly marked the career of the young actor Camilo Arancibia. Felipe Gálvez’s film, set in Patagonia at the beginning of the 20th century, portrays the violence that exists in the place, not only with the native peoples, but also among the settlers themselves. Arancibia (December 22, 1999, Viña del Mar) … Read more
The film “The Colonists”, by Felipe Gálvez, which portrays what happened in Chilean and Argentine Patagonia around the year 1900, has been seen not only in Cannes, where it received an award, but also by some of the descendants of the native peoples who They suffered the rigor of colonization at that time. It is … Read more
